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Last 5 purchases
M18 Super Hellcat - 31 March 2017 Year 13:34 $39.99
T34 Sherman Calliope - 31 March 2017 Year 13:05 $44.99[/quote]
Just noticed this in my transaction history. I was gifted the calliope ages ago, and got the hellcat with in-game eagles last year I think. Yet they're both showing as purchased on march 31st 2017. Is Gaijin just re-sorting and cataloguing things, or did some sneeki-breeki get on my account and buy tanks I already have? Anyone else seeing something similar in their purchase histories?
I haven't even noticed anything strange with my account, so it's probably nothing.
[QUOTE=Valdor;52096050]don't think i've ever cut a game this close before, b29 is surprisingly fun[/QUOTE]
Does it still have the issue of:
Light wing damage on one side -> [highlight]DEATH SPIRAL[/highlight] ?
[QUOTE=Doom14;52096123]Does it still have the issue of:
Light wing damage on one side -> [highlight]DEATH SPIRAL[/highlight] ?[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, if anything is on your ass the best chance you have is to dive and hope they aren't willing to chase you. The tail gunners do shit damage (bomber balance from the glory days?) and any damage to the plane causes some sort of critical malfunction
[QUOTE=Valdor;52096194]Oh yeah, if anything is on your ass the best chance you have is to dive and hope they aren't willing to chase you. The tail gunners do shit damage (bomber balance from the glory days?) and any damage to the plane causes some sort of critical malfunction[/QUOTE]
Bomber Glory days were flying around a barely-trained PBY-5 in Arcade back in like 1.2 or 1.3, pulling tight circles, and watching the .50 gunners [B]ABSOLUTELY SLAUGHTER[/B] innocent biplanes that dared get close.
I kind of feel like bombers were a mistake and while I don't want CIWS-tier autowin turrets on them, I would greatly enjoy an improved manual gunner aim where I'm not guessing what distance the guns are set at with an awkward third-person offset, misaligned aim, and shakey-cam if I'm using WEP.
I would love a mode without bombers. They kind of ruin certain BRs when 80% of the game is chasing a bomber at 30k ft every game.
[QUOTE=Doom14;52096464]Bomber Glory days were flying around a barely-trained PBY-5 in Arcade back in like 1.2 or 1.3, pulling tight circles, and watching the .50 gunners [B]ABSOLUTELY SLAUGHTER[/B] innocent biplanes that dared get close.
I kind of feel like bombers were a mistake and while I don't want CIWS-tier autowin turrets on them, I would greatly enjoy an improved manual gunner aim where I'm not guessing what distance the guns are set at with an awkward third-person offset, misaligned aim, and shakey-cam if I'm using WEP.[/QUOTE]
I'll never forget the era of the b17s or the g8n, especially the g8n
I felt like the g8n was killer and people would go on the offensive with it, now it's just a coffin. Back when b17s were king it was just a slaughter, but at least nobody climbed to space. The current bombers are only fun for planning attack and landing approaches tbh
[QUOTE=Lupin;52096080]Just noticed this in my transaction history. I was gifted the calliope ages ago, and got the hellcat with in-game eagles last year I think. Yet they're both showing as purchased on march 31st 2017. Is Gaijin just re-sorting and cataloguing things, or did some sneeki-breeki get on my account and buy tanks I already have? Anyone else seeing something similar in their purchase histories?
I haven't even noticed anything strange with my account, so it's probably nothing.[/QUOTE]Think its a website error, just crossed checked a calliope that i apparently bought on the 31st March (already have one) and i didn't have any money come out of my account that day.
Also holy shit have i spent a lot on it since i started, remind me to never look at that list again.
Too bad they pander to the mouthbreathing fighters who like to sit on your ass for a good 20 seconds because they're not patient/skilled enough to attack from an angle, worst part is they can do it easy. They'd be dead fast as hell if I had centered gunner aim, or the AI gunners were competent.
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;52097244]Too bad they pander to the mouthbreathing fighters who like to sit on your ass for a good 20 seconds because they're not patient/skilled enough to attack from an angle, worst part is they can do it easy. They'd be dead fast as hell if I had centered gunner aim, or the AI gunners were competent.[/QUOTE]
Another psychological problem is, that realistically, the easiest and most reliable way of taking down a strategic bomber is, as that one cheeky tooltip suggests, to break the engines and let it just crash. The issue is that even though that was always very easy to do, it means you need to do a good pass and then wait long minutes for the bomber to go down, which the average player doesn't have the patience for (and admittedly the kill system doesn't really accommodate for, often awarding "crashes" if the kill isn't instantaneous).
So they had to make bombers death spiral after bit of wing damage so people can have their kill immediately and stop killing themselves on the turrets.
Once again, bombers were a mistake. I think you could keep attackers relevant, but bombers better suit AI control at this rate unless they intend to both fix gunner view and the gamemodes themselves.
They're kind of the quasi-artillery of the air and plain Air RB being a stagnant mode doesn't help much. I'm hoping World War mode or other stuff comes to make it interesting. Or even more Enduring Conflict, where the cyclic one-death style of normal Air RB doesn't apply.
[sp]Coming from the guy who did a BV squad where we racked up the most kills AND basically took out all 3 bases + the airfield.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Doom14;52098316]Once again, bombers were a mistake. I think you could keep attackers relevant, but bombers better suit AI control at this rate unless they intend to both fix gunner view and the gamemodes themselves.
They're kind of the quasi-artillery of the air and plain Air RB being a stagnant mode doesn't help much. I'm hoping World War mode or other stuff comes to make it interesting. Or even more Enduring Conflict, where the cyclic one-death style of normal Air RB doesn't apply.
[sp]Coming from the guy who did a BV squad where we racked up the most kills AND basically took out all 3 bases + the airfield.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Dude BV's are just straight up funny to fly with friends. I have no regrets buying it.
So many gunners
[i]So many holes in your enemies.[/i]
It's not that bombers are hard to kill. It's that it takes an inordinate amount of boring as hell busywork to do it safely.
Man, the T34 is so damn good. Good thing Gaijin buffed post pen spalling of those 120mm guns.
It's so good in-fact, that I have bought my second ever talisman for it.
And the stock ammo is supposedly STILL underperfoming.
Bombers seem hard to implement in any game like this, especially if you want to make them a fair and fun experience for bomber pilots and fighter pilots.
I like flying bombers, tbh, but I've not gotten past the B-25. I liked trying to fly it in RB since I enjoyed the increased challenge, but didn't like how useless I felt or how pointless it felt if the rest of my team died and I was one of a few bombers left flying around.
I like flying fighters too, but experiences I've had with higher-tiered fighters and a lot I've heard means I probably won't bother going beyond the B-25
The underlying issue with bombers is that they are tools of strategy crammed into a tactical environment.
If war thunder behaved somewhat like Aces High II, where the world was one large persistent map instead of a 30 square kilometer instance, strategic bombers would be much more valued.
[QUOTE=Doom14;52098316]I think you could keep attackers relevant, but bombers better suit AI control at this rate unless they intend to both fix gunner view and the gamemodes themselves.
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(Internal screaming regarding ground attack)
Really though, I know about 80% of air RB disagrees with me but ground attack isn't THAT bad. My main issues with it arise with never ending krymsk/berlin spam and those doods who blind hunt for infinite view range or w/e to find the last one alive.
Also, it'd be nice if there was a way to make it so you could still win after your team loses all planes by destroying way more of the enemy's ground ai units prior. I know I've not explained it well but basically it's annoying knowing that in most circumstances GA's can't really determine the fate of the match even though the mission obj is usually ground based simply because there's sooo many fuckin' tanks and because all the planes usually die first. Killing the enemy air forces doesnt mean shit if you have no ground pounders and your own ground forces are nearly wiped out.
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;52098844]The underlying issue with bombers is that they are tools of strategy crammed into a tactical environment.
[b]If war thunder behaved somewhat like Aces High II, where the world was one large persistent map[/b] instead of a 30 square kilometer instance, strategic bombers would be much more valued.[/QUOTE]
Well, that IS planned for the future. However nowhere near in sight for now. Next year maybe?
[QUOTE=TheMrFailz;52099128]Really though, I know about 80% of air RB disagrees with me but ground attack isn't THAT bad. My main issues with it arise with never ending krymsk/berlin spam and those doods who blind hunt for infinite view range or w/e to find the last one alive.[/QUOTE]
The real issue with ground attack is that it's entirely map dependent. Some maps can be won by a single cheeky duck. That same cheeky duck can be put on fucking Norway.
Any time you hop in an attacker in Air RB, you're rolling the dice whether it's ez-pz or basically a waste of your time and you're going to be an overweight fighter.
[QUOTE=Doom14;52099143]Any time you hop in an attacker in Air RB, you're rolling the dice whether it's ez-pz or basically a waste of your time and you're going to be flying a lead balloon with anger problems and a pushmower under the hood.[/QUOTE]
FTFY.
[QUOTE=BananaMed;52099130]Well, that IS planned for the future. However nowhere near in sight for now. Next year maybe?[/QUOTE]
When it comes to games like WT/WoT/whatever, I've learnt to not get my hopes up because the community will find a way to completely fuckulate the original premise beyond belief. This would be neat though, as it'd make bombers less useless alongside with making them more satisfying to fly.
Another one of those event-based unique vehicle grinds upcoming.
6 Tank Stages - Matilda II with F-96 (Soviet Era II)
11 Tank Stages - A33 Excelsior (UK Era III)
6 Plane Stages - PV-2D "Harpoon" (USA Era II - with 8 bonus .50s!)
11 Plane Stages -Mystery Yak-3P (Soviet Era III)
I just spent 15 minutes tank-wrestling with an IS-4 on Sinai dunes. While at the same time bouncing shots from an IS-3 standing just behind me.
When the IS-3 finally charged me I was forced to use my HE shells in a desperate attempt at atleast destroying IS-4 gunbarrel. As it turns out I destroyed the gun of THE FUCKING IS-3 STANDING BEHIND ME, and killed him because misfire.
Wha the fuck just happened there.
[editline]14th April 2017[/editline]
Seriously, the amount of handholding these vehicle give is mind boggling, and yet this situation continued forever, and one of them even died.
[url=http://imgur.com/a/V65hn]Pardon the ultra-low[/url]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/b12aEeh.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=WizardLizard;52098433]Dude BV's are just straight up funny to fly with friends. I have no regrets buying it.
So many gunners
[i]So many holes in your enemies.[/i][/QUOTE]You always pull a comment or two when you drop into a game with a full squad of BV's and proceed to win the game with sheer bomb load and rear-facing firepower.
[editline]13th April 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Doom14;52098316]
[sp]Coming from the guy who did a BV squad where we racked up the most kills AND basically took out all 3 bases + the airfield.[/sp][/QUOTE]What he said.
Japanese ram magic back at it again except it was all 3 of our remaining players (+me) and they didn't seem to get damaged from doing so :glare:
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Not only that but they all seem to have this weird addiction with magnetizing to the optimal turret shooty spot straight behind you so that you can blapt 12.7's into their engine block. It's like they literally want you to engine kill them.
Was the AC IVs mobility nerfed?
I swear it used to feel way faster
so it turns out we're just WoT-lite, with +-10% RNG on shell penetration (20% for hesh because fuck you britain)
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/65b8g5/hesh_has_actual_rng_for_its_penetration_value/[/url]
This game is just going to make me an angry drunk one day.
Australian shitposting collection of AC IV, Wirraway, and Boomerang is fun as fuck
too bad the fucking kangaroo emblem is unlocked by playing US tanks for some fucked reason
[QUOTE=Araknid;52103080]Was the AC IVs mobility nerfed?
I swear it used to feel way faster[/QUOTE]
No, not that I can see
[editline]14th April 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=BananaMed;52098554]Man, the T34 is so damn good. Good thing Gaijin buffed post pen spalling of those 120mm guns.
It's so good in-fact, that I have bought my second ever talisman for it.
And the stock ammo is supposedly STILL underperfoming.[/QUOTE]
Yes, both T34 and M103's AP got special cased and do tons of damage post-penetration
So it's finally here: [URL]https://warthunder.com/en/news/4648-special-war-thunder-chronicles-en/[/URL]
And let's walk through these real quick:
[t]http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Matilda_Mk-IV_ZiS-5.png[/t]
[B]Matilda Mk.II F-96[/B] - Matilda with a ZiS-5. The depression angle available will make or break this tank. At the right BR, it could be fun.
[t]https://static.warthunder.com/upload/image/! 2017 NEWS/04 April/Chronicles/a33_excelsior_37d1597f7e4cef01932bfa086e2dbe0f.png[/t]
[B]A33 Excelsior[/B] - You're getting a ＴＨＩＣＣ Cromwell (114mm armor frontally, mostly) with a [U]QF 75mm.[/U] You can't pay me to play more QF 75mm tanks. It will be servicable, but not fun.
[t]https://static.warthunder.com/upload/image/! 2017 NEWS/04 April/Chronicles/pv_2d_d724b21c050ab67fd198364388888f16.png[/t]
[B]PV-2D [/B]- It's a slightly better B-34 with a lot of nose .50s. Medium bombers. ~fun~
[t]https://static.warthunder.com/upload/image/! 2017 NEWS/04 April/Chronicles/yak_3t_1f98326463637a69c08df9d014025b20.png[/t]
[B]Yak-3T[/B] - It's a Yak-3, but it has the rapid-blapper, less-pen 37mm. So this isn't really a great anti-tank variant next to the 9T. You get twin 20mms though, so it's got great firepower, but likely not worth the blood pressure to get.
Great showing Gaijin. I'm probably not even going to bother.:v:
Like I regret skipping the KV-220, but I know for a fact I won't lose sleep over these. My M8A1 fuels me.
[sp]The nose arts look rad though, shame there's no way I'm risking blood pressure for some decals.[/sp]
I might try to get the harpoon, but that's about it too
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